Devin Booker

CTL-E-5904 · Person · other · 1996–present

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Combined Graph record U-07149 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5904.

Devin Booker, born Devin Armani Booker on 30 October 1996 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns. The son of Melvin Booker, a former professional guard who starred at Missouri, and Veronica Gutierrez, he moved to Moss Point, Mississippi, to live with his father in high school and became a McDonald's All-American. After one season at Kentucky, where he was the Southeastern Conference Sixth Man of the Year, Phoenix drafted him 13th overall in 2015. At 20 he scored a franchise-record 70 points against Boston, the youngest player ever to score more than 60 in a game. He led Phoenix to the 2021 NBA Finals and earned All-NBA First Team honors in 2022. A five-time All-Star and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, he became the Suns' all-time leading scorer in February 2025. In June 2026 he changed his jersey from No. 1 to No. 15, his father's Missouri number, for the 2026-27 season.

The record

• Also known as: Devin Armani Booker, Book

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Devin Booker entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5904 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1029 (Basketball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American basketball figure — father Melvin Booker is African American, documented factually from the record's sources (Associated Press; Arizona Sports).. Vital status: LIVING — announced his No. 15 jersey change with Phoenix in June 2026 and remains the Suns' franchise player entering 2026-27 (Associated Press). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Five All-Star selections; Suns' all-time leading scorer (passed Walter Davis's 15,666 points in February 2025); franchise-record 70 points in a game at age 20; two Olympic gold medals (Associated Press; Wikipedia) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: NBA and Suns press photography of Booker exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5904-devin-booker.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• Associated Press via SLAM, "Suns' All-Star guard Devin Booker changes jersey number to No. 15 in honor of his dad Melvin" (21 June 2026) — five-time All-Star; changed from No. 1 to No. 15 to honor his father Melvin Booker, who played professionally in the NBA and overseas; Suns' all-time leading scorer; Olympic gold medals in 2021 and 2024; vital-status evidence — https://slamonline.com/nba/suns-all-star-guard-devin-booker-changes-jersey-number-to-no-15-in-honor-of-his-dad-melvin/ (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Devin Booker" — born 30 October 1996; son of Melvin Booker; one Kentucky season and SEC Sixth Man of the Year; drafted 13th overall in 2015; youngest player to score over 60 in a game with a franchise-record 70; 2021 Finals run; All-NBA First Team 2022; Suns' all-time leading scorer in 2025 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Booker (build store)
• Arizona Sports, "Why is Devin Booker changing his Suns jersey number from No. 1?" (2026) — the No. 15 honors Melvin Booker, who wore it at Missouri; Devin moved from Michigan to Moss Point, Mississippi, to live with his father and became a McDonald's All-American — https://arizonasports.com/threads/devin-booker-changing-suns-jersey-number-1 (build store)

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